Étienne Davodeau (born October 19, 1965), is a French comic book artist and writer.
Life and career
Davodeau was born in
Botz-en-Mauges
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French Confederation of Christian Workers
The French Confederation of Christian Workers (french: italic=no, Confédération française des travailleurs chrétiens; CFTC) is one of the five major French confederation of trade unions, belonging to the social Christian tradition.
It was ... then unionists of the
French Democratic Confederation of Labour
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After his
baccalauréat
The ''baccalauréat'' (; ), often known in France colloquially as the ''bac'', is a French national academic qualification that students can obtain at the completion of their secondary education (at the end of the ''lycée'') by meeting certain ... , Davodeau studied at the
University of Rennes 2
Rennes 2 University (UR2; french: Université Rennes 2) is a public university located in Upper Brittany, France. It is one of the four universities in the Academy of Rennes.The two others are: UBO (Brest), Western Brittany, and UBS in Lorient - ... (department of visual arts); he then founded, with other comics enthusiasts, including his future collaborators Joub and Jean-Luc Simon, the studio Psurd.
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He published his first album, ''L'Homme qui n'aimait pas les arbres'', in 1992, in the collection for young authors, "Génération Dargaud.
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In 2011, he published the comic album ''Les Ignorants (The Initiates)'', the story of his initiation to the work of winemaking and his exchanges with the winegrower. In 2016, the cartoonists Fleur Godart and Justine Saint-Lô follow the same approach for their book Pur jus, about natural wines.
He won two years in a row the France Info Prize for comics journalism: in 2006 for ''Les Mauvaises Gens'' : une histoire de militants, and the following year for ''Un homme est mort'', written with Kris.
In 2013, he was awarded the "Grand Boum-Ville de Blois" prize by the bd BOUM festival, for the whole of his work. That same year, his two-volume comic album ''Lulu femme nue (Lulu Anew)'', published in 2008 and 2010, received a film adaptation
of the same name directed by
Sólveig Anspach
Sólveig Anspach (8 December 1960 – 7 August 2015) was an Icelandic-French film director and screenwriter. Born to a German-Romanian father Gerhard Anspach and an Icelandic mother Högna Sigurðardóttir, she spent most of her life living ... . In 2015, the film was nominated to a
César Award for Best Adaptation
The César Award for Best Adaptation (french: César de la meilleure adaptation) is an award presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma. It was initially awarded from 1983 to 1985, and then awarded again in 2006, when the original ... in the occasion of the
40th César Awards
The 40th César Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, honoured the best films of 2014 in France and took place on 20 February 2015 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. The ceremony was chaired by actor- ... .
In 2014, he directed with Benoît Collombat a series of reports, pre-published in La Revue Dessinée. The first episode, ''Mort d'un juge,'' is about the assassination of Judge
François Renaud
François Renaud (5 March 1923, – 3 July 1975) was a French judge whose murder in 1975 led to much speculation, but was never solved. He was the first judge in France to have been assassinated since World War II. His death inspired the French fi ... in 1975. The album ''Cher pays de notre enfance'', published in 2015, is described as an investigation into the leaden years of the
Fifth Republic .
Since the late 1990s, Étienne Davodeau lives at
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